Surplusage

{{Short description|Jurisprudential term}} {{Wiktionary}} In jurisprudence, '''''surplusage''''' is language within a document that has no legal relevance to a cause, and may thus be ignored.<ref>{{cite web |title=surplusage |url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/surplusage |website=Wex |publisher=Cornell Law School |access-date=15 October 2021}}</ref>

Another use of the term is in statutory interpretation. Where one reading of a statute would make one or more parts of the statute redundant and another reading would avoid the redundancy, the other reading is preferred.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Golden |first1=John M. |title=Redundancy: When Law Repeats Itself |journal=Texas Law Review |date=2015 |volume=94 |page=629}}</ref>

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